The African University Ahmed Draia of Adrar is a university, located in Adrar in the south west of Algeria. The name The African University was given to it since the beginning because its researchers and laboratories are specialized in African studies and many of its students come from various African countries, but recently, it has been added the name of the martyr Ahmed Draïa because he is a national symbol who fought in the Algerian War of Independence. The African University has mainly five faculties; Faculty of Science and Technology, the Faculty of Economics, Commerce and Management, the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Islamic Sciences, the Faculty of Letters and Languages and the Faculty Law and Political Sciences.